ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,567, issued on July 14, was assigned to TCL COMMUNICATION (NINGBO) Co. LTD. (Ningbo, China).

"Uplink configuration method, user equipment, and base station" was invented by Aijuan Feng (Ningbo, China) and Jia Sheng (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) and a base station uplink configuration execute a method comprising negotiating coverage enhancement configuration for uplink transmission. The UE allocates coverage enhancement representations of at least one transport block (TB) into a set of the uplink radio resources for uplink transmission based on the coverage enhancement configuration. The coverage ...